Cindy Savett is the author of Child in the Road (Parlor Press, 2007) and Rachel: In the Temporary Mist of Prayer (Big Game Books, 2007). A chapbook, Battle for the Metal Kiss, will be out from H_ngm_n in 2011. Her work has appeared in LIT, Dusie, Little Red Leaves, Moira, Word For/Word and other journals. She lives in the Philadelphia area with her family and teaches poetry workshops to inpatients at psychiatric hospitals.